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28 Apr 2023: The Falling Walls Lab gives students and early-career professionals a chance to present their ground breaking research to win a spot at the Falling Walls Lab finale in Berlin in November 2023. Each candidate has 3 minutes to showcase a breakthrough

19 Oct 2023: On 7th September 2023, the UK Government and the EU announced the UK’s association to the Horizon Europe and Copernicus Programmes, to enter into force on 1st January 2024. To support our researchers, we have invited the dedicated European Advisor

19 May 2023: On 15 December 2022, EU Council adopted an implementing decision prohibiting certain Hungarian institutions (any public interest trusts established on the basis of the Hungarian Act IX of 2021) from entering into legal commitments regarding the EU

3 Nov 2023: The exchange rate to convert the EUR grant value to GBP has been updated by UKRI. For grant agreements signed by the Commission from the 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2024 a maximum exchange rate of £1: €1.148787 will be accepted. Read more in

19 Oct 2023: Departments who receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) need to be aware of the updated NIH Grants Policy Statement, section 15.2 For foreign subrecipients, a provision requiring the foreign subrecipient to provide access to

22 Sep 2023: In 2019, the Tsinghua University and the University of Cambridge established the Tsinghua - Cambridge Joint Research Initiative Fund, a five-year initiative to strengthen research collaborations between academics in the two institutions. The recent

17 Oct 2023: On Tuesday 10th October, the University Tax Office with the support of the Research Office hosted an online VAT training session on research grants and contracts aimed at administrative staff in Departments. The session was recorded and is now

1 Dec 2023: The Research Grants User Group Meeting (RGUG) took place on 30th November 2023 and the recording and slides are now available. Our next meeting is schedule for 15th February 2024 at 2pm and you can join either online as a Teams call or in person at

8 Sep 2023: As you hopefully know by now the Transforming Research Support (TRS) Programme will be introducing a new research grant management system called Worktribe. Worktribe will change the way that principal investigators and professional staff across the

28 Jul 2023: The Royal Society’s University Research Fellowship scheme is now open with a funder deadline of 7th September 2023. This year’s scheme has changed, in line with the Royal Society’s Grant Funding Guidance which was published earlier this year.